/storyboard-architect
Turn a creative brief into a production-grade storyboard with shot specs, timing, on-screen text, and per-shot rationale. Use when the user describes a video brief, plans a video, references shots or beats, scripts a social video, or hands over a creative concept to break into
$ npx -y skills add whystrohm/shotkit --skill storyboard-architect --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/storyboard-architect
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Turn a creative brief into a production-grade storyboard with shot specs, timing, on-screen text, and per-shot rationale. Use when the user describes a video brief, plans a video, references shots or beats, scripts a social video, or hands over a creative concept to break into
The pre-production system we use to ship hundreds of videos a month. Open-sourced.
Other skills on shotkit.
- /brand-lock-extractor
Extract a production-ready brand-lock.md from a brand's existing assets. Point it at a website URL, a brand book PDF, screenshots, or a written description and it produces the nine-section brand-lock the rest of shotkit consumes, with a confidence and source noted for every
Open skill - /storyboard-html-preview
Render a structured storyboard (storyboard.md, shots.json, text-overlays.json, brand-lock.snapshot.md) into a single-file HTML preview that is shareable, printable, and offline. Use when the user wants to share a storyboard, export for review, hand off to an editor, or print a
Open skill - /visual-asset-critic
Critique a generated image against its source storyboard shot and prompt, producing revision notes. Use when the user has generated an image and wants feedback before committing. Triggers on "does this match the brief", "review this render", "is this on-brand", "what should I
Open skill - /visual-prompt-forge
Generate model-specific prompts from shots.json. Outputs copy-paste-ready prompts for stills (Midjourney, Flux, Ideogram, GPT Image, Nano Banana, Seedream) and motion video (Kling, Veo, Seedance, Hailuo). Also runs a revision mode that reads a critique.json and re-emits prompts
Open skill